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Dr Piñal, first Spanish surgeon elected as an honorary member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society

The distinction recognizes Piñal’s medical career and his close personal and professional ties with Australia.

The Australian Hand Surgery Society (AHSS) has appointed Dr Francisco del Piñal as an honorary member.

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Impaction syndrome: removal of ulnar pain by arthroscopic resection

The patient, 43, suffers from a combined ulnar impaction syndrome in his right wrist caused by the excess length of the ulna and ulnar styloid,

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Triangular fibrocartilage rupture and ulnar styloid fracture: dry arthroscopy surgery

The patient, 19, presents instability in the left wrist and pain at its ulnar edge. The symptoms, which limit its functionality, appear after a second injury (he had suffered a previous wrist fracture in childhood) and have their origin in a pseudoarthrosis of the ulnar styloid and the rupture of the insertion of the triangular fibrocartilage (TFC) in the ulnar fovea (bony cavity next to the styloid).

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What’s behind ulnar pain?: triangular fibrocartilage and other pathologies

The wrist is one of the most anatomically complex parts of the human skeleton. Its location acts as a link between the forearm and the hand,

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Dr Piñal, head of the hand surgery and microsurgery unit at Hospital Vithas Madrid La Milagrosa

The surgeon highlights his “commitment to technology and the highest care quality”. La Milagrosa

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Dr Piñal publishes the latest developments in wrist arthroscopy in the Journal of Hand Surgery, together with the orthopedic surgery departments of the Mayo Clinic and the Chinese University of Hong Kong

In his new collaborative work for the American edition of the prestigious journal, the role of dry arthroscopy in the approach to pathologies of the radial face of the wrist is addressed

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